Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on May 28, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):449-451; doi:10.1093/es/khm041
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Jeffrey J. Rossman. Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor
Jeffrey J. Rossman. Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-674-01926-1, $49.95
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In Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell presented Russia's laboring classes in the form of the tireless but credulous horse Boxer who willingly accepts the hardships and shortages associated with building the windmill of the animals' utopian dreams. Though few believed Russia's workers to have been as easily duped as Boxer, for years, historians of Stalinist industrialization have explained the relationship between Soviet workers and the state that demanded so much of them in terms that, in
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